"Spectacular! Takes you breath away! Sub launched ICBM missile !!!"
Take a look at the video and judge for yourself - I will post a clickable link next.
In the video, anyone can clearly see the missile streaking into the sky, with the heavy high-volume exhaust smoke plume billowing from the rear in a typical corkscrew pattern ...
Mr. Ellsworth goes on to say:
"It could be a test firing of an underwater ICBM missile from a submarine... not the Taliban (too big)"
By the way, the several reporters in the video matter of factly state over and over:
"Missile launch."
Fire coming out the back of the missile lights up the sky.
Is this an American mistaken launch???
or Chinese warning to stop trying to ruin their economy?
Or crazy NORKs ?
Robert Ellsworth says "Not the Taliban (too big). Could be underwater ICBM test firing".
HIs opinion identical to that mine, and that of:
Doug Richardson, the editor of Jane’s Missiles and Rockets examined the video for the Times of London and said he was left with little doubt.
"It’s a solid propellant missile," he told the Times. "You can tell from the efflux [smoke]."
Richardson said it could have been a ballistic missile launched from a submarine or an interceptor, the defensive anti-missile weapon used by Navy surface ships.
I'm going with the two experts on this one, since it agrees with what can so easily be seen with my own lyin' eyes ...
Meanwhile, naval analyst Raymond Pritchett makes a smart point: that the mystery itself is becoming a security problem.
“When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nation's second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn’t have any answers at all –-- that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security,” he writes.
“If NORAD can’t answer the first and last question, then I believe it is time to question every single penny of ballistic missile defense funding in the defense budget. NORTHCOM needs to start talking about what they do know, rather than leaving the focus on what they don’t know.”
Direct link to the video is here, many more extended comments on the blog;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qKMchcgzk
I’m curious, where did it go? I suppose what goes up must come down...
I DON’T know why this is still news. The Navy released a PDF file last sunday with an out line of possible launches until 23:59 zulu for the test range STARTING monday...
Well donchaknow Comrade Obama says we can absorb another attack.
"Advanced solid-fuel rockets control their speed by making a corkscrew maneuver, clearly evident (at the base of the rockets flight). This is done during tests to keep the rocket from overshooting the test area. "
Who cares? Nobody got hurt, and it wasn’t launched by the mus, er, the Amish. Whatever it was, NORAD knew it was there.
Besides, even if you know what it was, what are you going to do, shoot it down with your AR 15?
Somewhere a steely-eyed missile man has one less missile. Would very much like to hear the deliberations going on over this in the government.
But, having earlier enjoyed watching three aircraft, in echelon (very, rare), flying west from L.A. county this afternoon, and having noted that their three twin contrails were very short and hardly as copious as the one on video; I still have one question:
Why is there a Chinook (CH53), which is also very rare in or near L.A., in the foreground of the video and pointed directly at the contrail/exhaust trail shown on the video?
Where is a linear timeline chart of events, when the Boeing 787 had a major in flight electrical fire, when the Carnival ship had a mysterious double electrical fire and when this object was first seen.
And has anyone seen any evidence of reports of other ships in the area suffering mysterious electrical problems?
Was it a sub launched missile to take out an orbital platform? Something that was an immediate danger to the US? Like a satellite capable of creating an EMP pulse, or pulses?
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